At the YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen I acquired two books
- Learning Python, 3rd. Edition, ISBN 978-0-596-51398-6
- Intellectual Property and Open Source, ISBN 978-0-596-51796-0
I skimmed the later and started reading the Python book. And a funny thing which struck me.
Both books have explicit mentions of Perl, my favorite language.
The first book contains a comparison with Perl together with other languages and the author is of the opinion that Python has a cleaner design and a simpler syntax making it easier to read and maintain and keeps the number of bugs low.
The other book however has a longer discussion of the problems with the artistic license.
Funny that when I want to buy non-Perl tech books Perl still stands out.
I might get back to both titles later on, for now I am just a bit sorry I did not see Python 3 coming, my radar must be broken, anyway – having a reference book on Python 2.5 is probably a good thing.
About the other title, it is a but after the Artistic license a license to, which I am all too familiar, being a Perl programmer and CPAN contributor, so I wonder what the authors take is on the ruling in the Jacobsen vs. Katzer case.
I wonder if the author has a blog or something…
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